LMR in the News

Portugal em Exame (Portuguese periodical), "Mentes Brilhantes" (Brilliant Minds), pp. 114-119, 2007.

Ari Requicha, LMR Director, wins the first-ever Pierre Bezier Prize, for his (non-nanotech) work on geometric modeling and programmable automation, at the ACM Solid and Physical Modeling Symposium, Beijing, P. R. China, June 4-6, 2007

Jimmy Ly, LMR graduate student, wins first prize in the Science-as-Art contest at the Spring 2006 meeting of the Materials Research Society with an image of polypyrrole thin film.

Ari Requicha, LMR Director, wins the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Senior Research Award in the Spring of 2006, on the 100th anniversary of the School, for his work on nanorobotics.

Semanario Economico (Portuguese weekly), "Especial Inovacao" by Catarina Madeira, March 31, 2006.

Pam Gross, M.D., LMR postdoc, wins the October 2005 Asylum Research contest for AFM images, with an image of a crystalization pattern .

Grande Reportagem (Portuguese weekly magazine), "A revolucao que se segue" ("The next revolution"), January 3, 2004.

Nature Materials, News and Views, J. R. Krenn, "Nanoparticle waveguides. Watching energy transfer", April 2003.

Expresso (Portuguese newspaper), "Nanorobôs com dedo lusitano" (roughly, "Nanorobots with a Portuguese touch"), September 28, 2002. Extended coverage in www.janelanaweb.com.

Express News, University of Alberta, "Nanorobots are not smart... yet", March 26, 2002.

Smalltimes, "USC researchers to build nanobots that will monitor water pollution", January 16, 2002. Stories based on the same press release were carried by Associated Press, and appeared in Wired ("Tiny bots to scour big blue ocean", January 15, 2002), UniSci ("Swarms of tiny robots to monitor water pollution", January 14, 2002), and elsewhere.

USC Chronicle, "Thinking big on a very small scale", January 28, 2002.

L'Echo (Belgian newspaper), "Les atouts wallons en Californie", June 2001 (on the occasion of a LMR briefing on nanotechnology to Minister Serge Kubla, Vice-President of Wallonia, and to representatives of the Belgian press).

Business Week, "It's a nanoworld", November 27, 2000.

Superinteressante (Brazilian magazine), "Revolução invisível", November 2000.

Los Angeles Times, "Big promise in thinking small", August 17, 2000.

Popular Science, "The incredible shrinking doctors", July 2000.

Inside R&D (John Wiley & Sons), "Inside research: Laying the groundwork for nanoelectromechanical systems", June 23, 2000.

Science Magazine's Next Wave, "Nanotechnology panel", October 2, 1998.

Optics and Photonic News, "USC researchers make advances in NEMS technology", May 1998.

Voice of America, TV interview, 1998

USC Chronicle, "Scientific team pushes the nanotechnology frontier", February 23, 1998.

Sensor Technology (John Wiley & Sons), "AFM lets you sense, push nanometer particles", Vol. 13, No. 12, p. 3, December 1997.